Industrial Maintenance Technician

First Brands Group, LLC; Tiffin (OH); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Vision insurance

Job summary

A leading manufacturing company in Tiffin, Ohio, is seeking a Manufacturing Engineer to provide technical support for production and optimize manufacturing processes. The ideal candidate has a Bachelor's Degree and at least 3 years of experience in the automotive industry, specifically in injection molding. Responsibilities include ensuring process improvements, supporting project launches, and maintaining compliance with quality standards. This full-time position offers benefits including medical and vision insurance.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years experience in a similar role required.
• Automotive industry experience is necessary.
• Product launch exposure is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for providing technical support for production processes.
• Accountable for engineering activities in injection and blow molding.
• Emphasize continuous improvement through Lean methodology.

Skills

Injection Molding

Lean Manufacturing

Continuous Improvement

Process Optimization

Education

Bachelors Degree - technical

Job description

Overview

Position: Manufacturing Engineer

Plant: Tiffin

Reports to: Engineering Supervisor

Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree - technical required.
• A minimum of 3 years experience in a similar role.
• Automotive industry experience.
• Product launch exposure a plus.
• Injection Molding experience required, blow molding a plus.

Position Summary

The Manufacturing Engineer will be responsible for providing technical support for all aspects of production from design release forward. The incumbent will be accountable for engineering activities in the area of injection and blow molding, drilling operations, heat staking, welding and assembly, in order to obtain optimum productivity and quality levels while complying with customer specifications.

Responsibilities

The Manufacturing Engineer is responsible for his assigned manufacturing processes. Through input from the customer, plant staff, and production employees the Manufacturing Engineer will review process controls, emphasize continuous improvement through Lean Manufacturing methodology and Kaizen activities, participate in the development of cell layouts, set up reduction (SMED), lead time reduction, improve productivity through waste reduction. In addition the Manufacturing Engineer will be responsible for achieving product target cost, improved efficiency, identifying possible production problems for existing products within their scope of accountability.

The Manufacturing Engineer will be involved with helping to determine project capital needs, launch strategies, project timing, process flows, labor and machine standards as well as proposed plans for changes to the process, equipment, molds, and tooling to ensure reliability and compatibility with existing Grammer standards/systems.

Job Functions

• Support and maintain project time line
• Participate in identifying open items issues
• Review mold and secondary fixture design and make recommendations
• Develop workflow, effective layout and optimize processes
• Evaluate and implement process/product improvements
• Work with the team to develop tooling and poke yoke methods
• Assist with training of both technical and production in processing standards
• Develops short and long term strategy to support customer requirements
• Authorizes engineering change notices (deviations), process alerts, purchase orders, equipment spare parts inventory, and personnel training requests
• Supports plant safety rules, UAW contract, procedures and standards
• Involved with assigned project launch strategies, capital needs, program timing in support of all APQP, PPAP, and ISO/TS16949 requirements
• Achieve goals and objectives relating to cost and timing
• Achieve project expectation and requirements for all elements of PPAP, ISO/TS16949 (Promotes ISO/TS16949 compliance)
• Maintain records for primary tools (molds) and selected secondary equipment
• Prioritize personnel and resources as activities require
• Accountable for customer/plant continuous improvement programs
• Develop and maintain favorable customer relations

Seniority level

• Associate

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Manufacturing

Industries

• Motor Vehicle Manufacturing

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Vision insurance